IGNOU AMT 1 2026 - Design an activity using situations of profit and loss to help student

Question

Design an activity using situations of profit and loss to help students understand addition and subtraction of signed numbers. What mathematical concepts will students learn through this activity? Design a board game that uses forward and backward steps to represent positive and negative numbers. How will this game help students understand the rules of signed number operations? What properties of signed numbers can be learned through real-life activities?

27 Jan 2026

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Word Count : 277

To help primary school students understand addition and subtraction of signed numbers, a practical activity can be designed around situations of profit and loss in a small shop scenario. Each student is given a set of cards representing transactions: positive numbers for profits and negative numbers for losses. Students take turns drawing cards and calculating their cumulative total, using addition when combining profits and losses and subtraction when reversing a transaction. For example, if a student has a profit of

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